[ic] Need help with MIME types of downloadable content.

James P. Kinney III interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Oct 30 16:55:01 2002


I don't think you can control for that as it is a setup issue on the
client end. What you can do is to zip the pdf and deliver it that way.
There are no viewers for browsers (yet) for zip files. 

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:48, Frank Maestas wrote:
> Hello,
> My store has been running for about 1.5 years now. I am trying to setup 
> some downloadable files rather than shipping everything.  I have a test 
> PDF file that works just fine, but I would like to be able to let the 
> user save it to disk, rather than automatically display in the browser.
> 
> My question is, what are the MIME types I can use for downloadable files.
> 
> In the products database, I see a field called "dl_type".  In it I 
> entered "application/pdf".  Works great but how can I modfy so as to 
> allow saving to disk.  
> Anyone know if there are any other types I can use in this field?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Frank Maestas
> frank.maestas@ttseagle.com
> 
> 
> 
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